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> [A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/a-good-photograph-is-one-that-communicates-a-fact-touches-the-heart/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

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## More by Irving Penn

> [Photographing a cake can be art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/photographing-a-cake-can-be-art/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

> [I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/i-am-a-professional-photographer-because-it-is-the-best-way-i-know-to/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

> [A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/a-beautiful-print-is-a-thing-in-itself-not-just-a-halfway-house-on/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

> [I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/i-share-with-many-people-the-feeling-that-there-is-a-sweetness-and/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

> [I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/i-feed-on-art-more-than-i-ever-do-on-photographs-i-can-admire/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

> [Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/sometime-in-1964-i-realized-that-i-was-a-victim-of-a-printmaking/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

> [Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/liberman-said-to-me-i-must-cut-back-on-the-work-you-do-for-vogue-the/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

> [Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/many-photographers-feel-their-client-is-the-subject-my-client-is-a/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

> [Working on photography is working on oneself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/working-on-photography-is-working-on-oneself/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

> [I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/i-ve-tried-a-few-times-to-depart-from-what-i-know-i-can-do-and-i-ve/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

> [A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/a-good-photograph-is-one-that-communicates-a-fact-touches-the-heart/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

> [Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/over-the-years-i-must-have-spent-thousands-of-hours-silently-brushing/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

> [In portrait photography there is something more profound that we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/in-portrait-photography-there-is-something-more-profound-that-we-seek/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

> [I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/i-can-get-obsessed-by-anything-if-i-look-at-it-long-enough-that-s-the/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

> [What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-penn/what-i-really-try-to-do-is-photograph-people-at-rest-in-a-state-of/)

[Irving Penn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-penn/)

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